New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-01
BILL NYE's BLASTED PASS.
The War Between the Pres. and the Railways.

The War Between the Press and the Railways.
[ arrived here just little
ahead OF the biting blasts OF the I. G..
B., writes Bill Nye from Hudson, Wis.
to the New York World. BY the /. G..
B., mean to imply the Interstate
commission bill.
+ | noticed while en- route that the
\ new law had stimulated travel to a
wonderful degree. On my way from
the South, where I was during the,
winter. | noticed that the sluggish
arteries o. trade had already begun
to palpitate, and crowds Of people
tllled the cars on every train.
said to myself Congress has at last
solved this great question: of financial
strinsency and broken the great dam
that held capital captive. On the
Piedmont Air Line people crushed each
other together in a mad attempt to
travel. On the Richmond and Dan
vile and East Tennessee Virginia. and
Georgia, as we'll as the Louisville and
Nashville, humanity crowded day
coaches and sleeDers till the walls
cracked. At Cincinnati I could not
get a sleeping car at all, and I had to
telegraph twenty-four he urs ahead to
get to Chicago. Everywhere, as far as
the eye could reach, there seemed to
be a wild and restless desire to get
somewhere else. Several companies
have had to put on extra coaches to
carry the eager tourists.
I arrived here just in time to witness
the last moments OF a Northwestern
pass as it's spirit took it's flight. Had I
postponed my journey for single day
[ would have been too late.
It was still young. Life was before
it. Barely a quarter OF the span Of
!, it's life had been passed when it curled
up and expired. 1t was cute little
thing with an olive complex on, and
large, mournful, upper case eyes.
A few weeks ago [ noticed that it
did not look we'll It did not COM
plain OF illness or pain, but I
thought 1 detected a condition
on it's back, and so I hurried
home in order to be here in case
1T should expire. AS soon as the con-
#ductor looked at it and felt it's pulse
She Said that he could do nothing for
it. The Interstate commerce law is
8One OF those things that will have to
5be tried before we can pass upon it, I
presume, though some claim that it
is going to be very difficult to pass
upon it even then. This thought oc-
cured to me just after the gate-keeper
no
me to 60 and get my ticket
be rudely ground under the heel OF
cold corporation that is devoid Of
soul, devoid ofnoble thoughts, devoid
OF refined Instincts, devoid of kind
impulses, devoid OF milk of human
kindness, devoid OF bowels of compass
sion
From force of habit I walked up to
the gate with joyous nod and the
old password, only to be coldly re-
pulsed by the hired bouncer of this
heartless, soulless, impulseless. milk
less and bowelless corporation.
But the railroads will get the worst
OF it, for [ know that travel on some
of the lines has fallen Oft since April
1. | can see it already. have fallen
OF myself since the 1st OF the month,
and others will do the same
That is not all. A friend of mine
who runs paper, and whose pass
got the hollow horn on Friday
last, says that his columns are
now open to those who wish
to complain Of the management OF the
road. He states that the first hot
box will be duly chronicled, and that
he will no longer close his eyes to the
wrongs we have heretofo suffered at
the hands OF the unjust and ruthless
vampire that has been sapping the
very foundations of our institutions
and smearing it's long, dark trail with
the remnants Of our best mich COWS,
reluctantly paying for them the price
set at the tail Of an unjust and ener-
waiting trial by O. corrupt, venal and
driveling jury.
He says that the time ''has come for
the press to arise and assert ITSELF"
and when the train runs off the track
and kills a lot OF people who have led
exemplary lives, his paper will hereaft-
er tell why and how 1t was done.
Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help IN the Office, but now he is going
to give all the particulars OF the first
smash-up that occurs on the road ii
the paper falls into the relentless
NAV Of a Sheriff sale on the follow
ing week.
Woman yNJ,ist1o,